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  1. Cloudflare was down (cloudflare.com)
    ×13.38 89 | 782 points by mektrik 5 hours ago | 487 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship' (npr.org)
    ×4.38 78 | 201 points by seattle_spring 9 hours ago | 190 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down
    ×3.45 86 | 301 points by bakigul 5 hours ago | 158 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. The RAM shortage comes for us all (jeffgeerling.com)
    ×3.94 58 #85 | 356 points by speckx 18 hours ago | 379 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. Rats Snatching Bats Out of the Air and Eating Them–Researchers Got It on Video (smithsonianmag.com)
    ×0.93 49 | 70 points by bookofjoe 9 hours ago | 12 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Netflix becomes frontrunner in bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery – sources (cnn.com)
    ×5.59 44 | 64 points by mikeweiss 9 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Everyone in Seattle hates AI (jonready.com)
    ×5.46 36 | 934 points by mips_avatar 1 day ago | 1035 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. A Cozy Mk IV light aircraft crashed after 3D-printed part was weakened by heat (bbc.com)
    ×2.06 38 #70 | 238 points by toss1 17 hours ago | 198 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Linus Torvalds thinks Elon Musk is 'too stupid' to be working at a tech company (neowin.net)
    ×7.29 61 #68 | 28 points by bundie 1 hour ago | 10 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Turning 40 (andreabergia.com)
    ×1.85 65 | 7 points by speckx 1 hour ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas (arstechnica.com)
    ×3.81 27 #60 | 413 points by OptionOfT 22 hours ago | 319 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Elon Musk's X fined €120M by EU in first clash under new digital laws (theguardian.com)
    ×3.62 51 | 7 points by robin_reala 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Django 6 (djangoproject.com)
    ×3.54 22 #46 | 339 points by wilhelmklopp 16 hours ago | 163 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Unreal Tournament 2004 is back (reddit.com)
    ×3.80 21 #73 | 446 points by keithoffer 1 day ago | 196 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. New York Times Sues A.I. Startup Perplexity over Use of Copyrighted Work (nytimes.com)
    ×3.16 63 | 5 points by cmiles8 52 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Is Cloudflare Down Again? Also, DownDetector/Claude.ai/LinkedIn?
    ×1.14 26 #62 | 27 points by dfasoro 5 hours ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. The US polluters that are rewriting the EU's human rights and climate law (somo.nl)
    ×4.43 27 #30 | 363 points by saubeidl 4 hours ago | 205 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Layoutz – Simple, beautiful CLI output for Haskell (flora.pm)
    ×2.69 60 | 4 points by Vosporos 46 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. CJEU has made it effectively impossible to run a user-generated platform legally (techdirt.com)
    ×3.39 17 | 113 points by alsetmusic 18 hours ago | 57 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. Netflix to buy Warner Bros film and streaming businesses for $72B (bbc.com)
    ×2.15 35 | 4 points by vinni2 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. State of AI: An Empirical 100T Token Study with OpenRouter (openrouter.ai)
    ×1.61 16 #54 | 191 points by anjneymidha 15 hours ago | 91 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Bootloader Unlock Wall of Shame (github.com/zenfyrdev)
    ×2.45 15 | 161 points by thunderbong 22 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig (sinclairtarget.com)
    ×3.02 15 #36 | 384 points by yurivish 16 hours ago | 457 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. “Captain Gains” on Capitol Hill (nber.org)
    ×3.86 13 | 821 points by mhb 2 days ago | 547 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. Why we can’t quit Excel (bloomberg.com)
    ×1.75 19 #37 | 27 points by thm 3 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. How Russia keeps raising an army to replace its dead (politico.com)
    ×2.09 22 | 4 points by gregorymichael 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. Introduction to Plan 9 (9front.org)
    ×1.76 30 | 3 points by finnlab 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung (pcworld.com)
    ×3.45 11 #61 | 392 points by sethops1 1 day ago | 381 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. The Secret of Latino Teens' Better Mental Health (wsj.com)
    ×1.78 29 | 3 points by impish9208 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. Nvidia's new AI framework trains an 8B model to manage tools like a pro (venturebeat.com)
    ×1.87 28 | 3 points by mooreds 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. Feds ask Waymo about robotaxis repeatedly passing school buses in Austin (techcrunch.com)
    ×2.23 40 | 3 points by amarcheschi 36 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled? (reason.com)
    ×4.26 10 #29 | 687 points by delichon 20 hours ago | 898 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. The "soft" racism of the well-meaning white liberal, myself included (ncte.org)
    ×2.21 46 | 3 points by volemo 29 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X (fsfe.org)
    ×4.53 9 | 153 points by latexr 22 hours ago | 167 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. ARM's Barrel Shifting Tricks (xania.org)
    ×2.35 16 | 4 points by hasheddan 2 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Commission fines X €120M under the Digital Services Act (europa.eu)
    ×1.73 14 #71 | 5 points by nabla9 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. It’s time to free JavaScript (2024) (javascript.tm)
    ×2.93 6 #40 | 697 points by pavelai 1 day ago | 353 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. Kenyan court declares law banning seed sharing unconstitutional (apnews.com)
    ×3.71 7 #16 | 116 points by thunderbong 5 hours ago | 33 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Ask HN: What do you want for Christmas?
    ×1.53 11 | 3 points by ruairidhwm 1 hour ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. 30 years ago today "Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript" (archive.org)
    ×2.32 5 #90 | 203 points by donohoe 1 day ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. Anthropic acquires Bun (bun.com)
    ×7.78 4 #69 | 2170 points by ryanvogel 2 days ago | 1065 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Influential study on glyphosate safety retracted 25 years after publication (lemonde.fr)
    ×3.96 14 #34 | 6 points by isolli 30 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Countdown until the AI bubble bursts (pop-the-bubble.xyz)
    ×6.59 3 | 73 points by tapematch 16 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Sugars, Gum, Stardust Found in NASA's Asteroid Bennu Samples (nasa.gov)
    ×1.66 5 #13 | 35 points by jnord 1 hour ago | 8 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  45. RCE Vulnerability in React and Next.js (github.com/vercel)
    ×3.05 2 | 601 points by rayhaanj 1 day ago | 253 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  46. Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business (micron.com)
    ×3.67 2 #75 | 742 points by simlevesque 1 day ago | 380 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  47. Ghostty is now non-profit (mitchellh.com)
    ×4.83 2 #51 | 1304 points by vrnvu 1 day ago | 281 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  48. PGlite – Embeddable Postgres (pglite.dev)
    ×2.90 2 #43 | 557 points by dsego 1 day ago | 111 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  49. Programming peaked (functional.computer)
    ×3.54 1 | 210 points by Antibabelic 1 day ago | 206 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???